Quotes about Patience
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
— Samuel Johnson
Patience means self-suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.
— Charles Spurgeon
Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.
— Thomas a Kempis
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.
— Teresa of Avila
Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee; All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing; For God is his All.
— Thomas a Kempis
God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.
— Rick Warren
The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.
— Marcus Aurelius
Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
— William Barclay
If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
— John Calvin
Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.
— Henry David Thoreau